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• Before she allegedly became a Russian asset, Lauren Chen was the darling of conservative YouTube

  11-09-2024 23:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  Long before Lauren Chen allegedly aided a Russian propaganda operation, she built an audience posting right-wing videos under the name "Roaming Millennial."
  
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• Former Danity Kane member sues Sean Combs, alleging he groped and threatened her

  11-09-2024 23:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sean “Diddy” Combs was sued in federal court Tuesday by a former member of Danity Kane — the girl group he assembled on the MTV reality competition “Making the Band” — who is alleging he groped, assaulted and imprisoned her, and threatened her life when she tried to intervene in defense of his then-girlfriend.
  
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• Canada's Poilievre signals plans for no-confidence vote against Trudeau government

  11-09-2024 23:30 via foxnews.com
  
  Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday his party plans to put forward a no-confidence motion "at the earliest possible opportunity" in hopes of bringing down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.Poilievre called on New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh to support the motion and trigger an election."Will Jagmeet Singh sell out Canadians again?" Poilievre said at a news conference in Ottawa. "It’s put up or shut up time for the NDP."Singh refused
  
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• Low Danube reveals sunken World War Two ships in Serbia, Hungary

  11-09-2024 23:27 via foxnews.com
  
  The wrecks of explosives-laden Nazi ships sunk in the River Danube during World War Two have emerged near Serbia's river port town of Prahovo, after a drought in July and August that saw the river's water level drop.Four vessels dating from before 1950 have also come to light in Hungary's Danube-Drava National Park near Mohacs, where the Danube's water level stood at only 1.5 metres on Tuesday (September 10) the lingering effect of severe heat waves and persistent drought in July and August.SUNK
  
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• Trump touts European 'strongman' as close ally during presidential debate: Who is Viktor Orban?

  11-09-2024 22:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Former President Trump touted his foreign policy credentials during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, name-checking the strong relationships he built with leaders of rival nations and allies alike during his term, most notably Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the "strongman" of Europe."He’s a tough person, smart prime minister of Hungary," Trump said, adding that Orban insisted "you need Trump back as president" because "they were afraid of him." "China was afraid, and
  
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• Undecided voters give Harris a look — but not a commitment — after the debate

  11-09-2024 22:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  A few of the voters who remain undecided in the 2024 election were moved by Tuesday’s debate — but it might take more than a debate to fully make up their minds.
  
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• Hanoi flooded by swollen river as Typhoon Yagi leaves 179 dead

  11-09-2024 22:20 via foxnews.com
  
  Vietnam's capital of Hanoi evacuated thousands of people living near the swollen Red River as its waters rose to a 20-year high, flooding streets days after Typhoon Yagi battered the country's north, killing at least 179 people.Asia's most powerful typhoon this year, Yagi brought gales and heavy rain as it moved westwards after landfall on Saturday, causing the collapse of a bridge this week while it scythed through provinces along the Red River, the area's biggest.NGUYEN PHU TRONG, VIETNAM'S TO
  
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• Why was Beyoncé snubbed by the Country Music Association Awards? Experts cite a few reasons

  11-09-2024 21:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Beyoncé fans may have been disappointed that her crossover album “Cowboy Carter” was shut out of this year’s Country Music Association Awards nominations, but it may not have been a shock.
  
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• Speaker Mike Johnson yanks government funding bill amid growing GOP defections

  11-09-2024 21:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  House Republicans pulled their plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month tied to a Trump election bill, saying they need more time to get the votes.
  
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• Netflix announces 'Bridgerton's' next leading lady: Yerin Ha

  11-09-2024 21:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Netflix has just announced the next leading lady for “Bridgerton”: Korean Australian actor Yerin Ha.
  
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• Justin Timberlake reaches plea agreement in DWI case, will appear in person for Hamptons hearing

  11-09-2024 21:05 via nbcnews.com
  
  Justin Timberlake is headed back to the Hamptons. The Grammy winner will be attending his Friday DWI court hearing in person.
  
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• Tyreek Hill wants the officer involved in his traffic stop 'gone, gone, gone'

  11-09-2024 20:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill emphatically said Wednesday the police officer involved in his traffic stop and detainment this week should be fired.
  
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• Ex-Memphis officers stood by Tyre Nichols' 'dying body' and laughed, prosecutor says

  11-09-2024 20:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  Opening statements were expected Wednesday in the federal trial of three former Memphis police officers charged with federal civil rights violations in the January 2023 beating death of Tyre Nichols.
  
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• Firefighters honor compatriots killed in 9/11 terrorist attacks with grueling bike ride

  11-09-2024 20:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  A group of almost 100 serving and retired firefighters from New York and Ireland will end a bike ride to honor those who were killed in the 9/11 terror attacks.
  
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• The first general election ballots of the presidential race are in the mail

  11-09-2024 20:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  The first ballots of the 2024 general election are heading to voters, as Alabama officials started mailing them out on Wednesday, kicking off presidential voting.
  
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• Putin has escalated Ukrainian war with Iranian missiles, suggest Blinken and Lammy – Europe live

  11-09-2024 19:32 via theguardian.com
  US secretary of state and British foreign secretary in Ukraine as Kyiv pushes to use long-range weapons deep inside Russia Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, has said Moscow will destroy any new deliveries of long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine by the United States, Reuters reported citing the state TASS news agency.The State Department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, said “the U.S. and UK stand united with Ukraine as they defend their sovereignty and freedom.” C
  
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• No 10 keen to kickstart search for cabinet secretary’s successor

  11-09-2024 19:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Downing Street impatient to begin recruiting, while Simon Case has yet to make his departure plans officialDowning Street is pushing to launch the formal search for a new cabinet secretary within the next month amid frustration with Simon Case, who is yet to officially announce his departure.Case has acknowledged he intends to leave in the new year due to health reasons, but the lack of a formal announcement means No 10 has not been able to kickstart the hunt for a successor. One Downing Street
  
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• ‘The dice is loaded’: the fight to clear Oliver Campbell’s name after 34 years

  11-09-2024 19:28 via theguardian.com
  Softly spoken and easily startled, Campbell was imprisoned for murder in what has been called one of the longest miscarriages of justice in British criminal history When Oliver Campbell’s lawyer first visited his client a quarter of a century ago, he recalls a prison officer pointing him towards a tall, shy man grooming a horse.Despite serving a life sentence for murder, Campbell, who had severe learning difficulties, was so vulnerable that he was moved to an open prison at the earliest op
  
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• Public inquiry announced into 1989 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane

  11-09-2024 19:28 via theguardian.com
  Family hopes independent inquiry will establish extent of state collusion in killing by loyalist paramilitary gunmenThe UK government has ordered an independent public inquiry into the 1989 murder of the Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, one of the most controversial killings of the Troubles.The Northern Ireland secretary, Hilary Benn, made the announcement on Wednesday after decades of campaigning by Finucane’s family and supporters, who say the full extent of state complicity in the crime
  
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• Save the Children pulls out of Science Museum event over sponsor concerns

  11-09-2024 19:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Move follows London museum’s links to Adani Group, which has partnership with Israeli arms manufacturerSave the Children has pulled out of an event at the Science Museum in London after coming under pressure from its supporters over the institution’s sponsors.The charity said it had decided to withdraw from an evening event called Journey of Life Lates on 11 September “following concerns from supporters about one of the museum’s sponsors, in the context of current public
  
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• Republicans amplify Trump’s false claims about immigrants as father of boy killed by Haitian driver asks them to stop – live

  11-09-2024 19:23 via theguardian.com
  Vance among Republicans to double down on pet eating claims as father of child killed in crash urges party to stop using tragedy for ‘political gain’Republicans dismayed by Trump’s ‘bad’ and ‘unprepared’ debate performanceHarris-Trump debate: key takeawaysRussia has accused both presidential candidates of using Vladimir Putin’s name as part of a domestic political fights, saying: “we really, really don’t like it”.Presidential spok
  
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• NFL star Tyreek Hill admits traffic stop errors but says police ‘beat the dog out of me’

  11-09-2024 19:17 via theguardian.com
  Officer on administrative duties after Sunday’s incidentEtan Thomas: Hill isn’t allowed to act like white peopleMiami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill acknowledged on Wednesday that he could have handled a weekend traffic stop differently, but remained critical of how police officers treated him.Hill said he that he should left the window of his car down when officers instructed him to do so during the stop on Sunday. He rolled up the window instead. The incident escalated quickly
  
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• Imminent impact of Hurricane Francine prompts Louisiana evacuation orders

  11-09-2024 19:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Category one storm expected to make landfall Wednesday, bringing damaging winds and life-threatening storm surgeHurricane warnings and evacuation orders were in place on Wednesday morning in parts of Louisiana’s Gulf coast, as communities prepare for Hurricane Francine’s expected landfall later in the day.Francine became a category 1 hurricane on Tuesday evening, and continued to strengthen overnight, the US National Weather Service said on Wednesday morning. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump campaign publicly claims debate win but privately express skepticism

  11-09-2024 19:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump probably did not convince any undecided voters to break for him, advisers suggestedUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s campaign publicly claimed victory in the debate against Kamala Harris on Tuesday night, but at least some of his aides privately conceded it was unlikely that he persuaded any undecided voters to break for him, according to people familiar with the matter.“Will tonight benefit us? No, it will not,” one Trump aide said. Continue reading..
  
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• Candidates to lead Commonwealth urge reparations for slavery and colonialism

  11-09-2024 19:14 via theguardian.com
  Three African contenders for role of secretary general call for financial measures or reparative justiceThe three candidates to be the next secretary general of the Commonwealth have called for reparations for countries that were affected by slavery and colonisation.The candidates from the Gambia, Ghana and Lesotho expressed their support for either financial reparations or “reparative justice”, as they made their pitches to lead the 56-country organisation at a debate hosted by the
  
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• Starmer urged to restore community cohesion programmes in schools

  11-09-2024 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Race relations expert joins calls for PM to give ‘state of the nation’ address tackling root causes of riotsThe previous government’s decision to abandon community cohesion programmes in English schools was an act of “political vandalism”, according to one of the country’s most prominent experts on race riots.Prof Ted Cantle, who wrote a seminal report on integration after the 2001 riots, said a number of long-term measures were abandoned by the Con
  
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• Keir Starmer urged to publish winter fuel payments impact assessment

  11-09-2024 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Rishi Sunak accuses Starmer of hiding assessment, while Downing Street will not say if one was carried outKeir Starmer has been challenged to set out the impact of his decision to cut the winter fuel allowance for all but the poorest pensioners in England and Wales.Despite disquiet among many Labour MPs, the Commons backed the government’s plan to means-test winter fuel payments in a vote on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Thirteen people including firefighters injured in ‘hellish’ California wildfires

  11-09-2024 18:59 via theguardian.com
  Several wildfires blaze in state after record-breaking heatwave last week with temperatures topping 100FAs least 13 people have been injured in three major southern California wildfires that broke out this week during a scorching heatwave. Firefighters battling the blazes were among the injured.The Bridge fire in the Angeles national forest, located north of Glendora, exploded from about 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) on Tuesday to 34,000 acres that evening, according to the Los Angeles Times. Con
  
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• International press reacts to Trump-Harris debate as world watches 'fiery debate'

  11-09-2024 18:45 via foxnews.com
  
  It was not only Americans tuning into the U.S. presidential debate Tuesday night as former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris faced off for the first time.The results of the November election are expected to have resounding consequences for U.S. policy abroad, and the international community has been paying close attention following President Biden’s drop from the race this July.The reactions by the international press to the Tuesday night debate drew stark comparisons
  
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• Kim Jong Un promises to 'steadily strengthen' North Korea's 'nuclear force'

  11-09-2024 18:33 via foxnews.com
  
  North Korea is promising to refine its weapons development and strengthen its nuclear capabilities. Supreme leader Kim Jong Un made the comments Monday at a state event celebrating the country's 76th anniversary."The obvious conclusion is that the nuclear force of the DPRK and the posture capable of properly using it for ensuring the state's right to security in any time should be more thoroughly perfected," the dictator said.ELTON JOHN SPEAKS OUT ON TRUMP'S 'ROCKET MAN' NICKNAME FOR KIM JO
  
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• Republicans dismayed by Trump’s ‘bad’ and ‘unprepared’ debate performance

  11-09-2024 18:27 via theguardian.com
  GOP lawmakers and analysts virtually unanimous that Trump was second best to Harris in first presidential debateUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s campaign was in damage control mode on Wednesday amid widespread dismay among supporters over a presidential debate performance that saw Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, repeatedly goad him into going wildly off-message and missing apparent opportunities to tackle her on policy.Republicans were virtually unanimous that
  
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• ‘Disciple’ of rape accused drugged and raped his own wife, French court told

  11-09-2024 18:24 via theguardian.com
  Trial of Dominique Pélicot hears that he allegedly provided sedatives to man he had met in a chatroomThe trial of a French man who recruited dozens of strangers to rape his drugged wife has heard how another man living in the same area copied the tactics to drug and rape his own wife.Dominique Pélicot, 71, is on trial in the southern city of Avignon for repeatedly raping, and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape, his heavily sedated wife in her own bed over a period of a decade in
  
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• On 9/11 anniversary Afghan opposition leader warns country once again a 'safe haven for terrorists'

  11-09-2024 18:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Three years since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and 23 years since the 9/11 terror attacks that led to the U.S. invasion, Afghanistan finds itself in a worse position now than it was on that fateful day."This country has become once again a safe haven for terrorism. It will become a battlefield once again," Afghan National Resistance Front (NRF) leader Ahmad Massoud told Fox News Digital in a rare interview.According to Massoud, the threat emanating from Afghanistan is much greater today
  
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• Frankie Beverly, legendary R&B artist and founder of Maze, dies at 77

  11-09-2024 17:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  Music fans both in Philadelphia and around the world have reason to mourn on Wednesday as legendary R&B artist, songwriter and producer Frankie Beverly has died.
  
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• Biden calls IDF’s killing of American in West Bank ‘totally unacceptable’

  11-09-2024 17:37 via theguardian.com
  
  But US president has still not called for an independent inquiry into the death of protester Ayşenur Ezgi EygiJoe Biden has described the Israel Defense Force’s fatal shooting of the Turkish American protester Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi as “totally unacceptable” in his first extensive comments on her death.In a statement on Wednesday, Biden said that Israel had “acknowledged responsibility” for Eygi’s death, but he stopped short of backing the demands put out
  
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• Studying colonisation and Aboriginal resistance to be mandatory in NSW high schools

  11-09-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  State’s new curricula for years 7 to 10 released as part of the shift to explicit teachingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAll high school students in New South Wales will study Aboriginal people’s experiences of colonisation for the first time, including the Frontier Wars and the concept of terra nullius, under the state’s reformed syllabuses.On Thursday, the education minister, Prue Car, released the remaining new curricula for Years 7 to 10 history,
  
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• Nearly half of young people gambled in the past year, survey shows

  11-09-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A third of people aged 16-35 started the habit before reaching 18, survey says, and younger start linked to addiction as adultsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAbout a third of young adults who gambled in the last year started punting before the age of 18, and those who start young experienced greater harms from gambling as an adult.Those are the results of a study by the Australian Gambling Research Centre (AGRC), based at the government’s Australian Institute of
  
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• Labor’s plan to ban children from social media might actually create more harm, charity says

  11-09-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Raising age limit is ‘completely irrelevant’ to the risks young people face online, child protection group cited by the PM warnsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA child protection organisation cited by the prime minister in an opinion piece arguing for his government’s policy to ban younger teens from social media says the ban is unlikely to make any difference, and could create more harm for kids.Following his announcement the government would introdu
  
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• Natasha Rothwell on ‘How to Die Alone,’ ‘Insecure,’ and teaching

  11-09-2024 16:43 via today.com
  Emmy-nominated actor, writer and director Natasha Rothwell joins Hoda and Jenna to dish on her new Hulu series “How to Die Alone” and her role in the hit show “Insecure.” She also discusses how her high school theater teacher impacted her career. Then, she sticks around to lay down the law on hot topics in a game of “All Rise.”
  
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• Thai cave boys’ coach trapped again six years later by typhoon floods

  11-09-2024 16:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Ekkapol Chantawong, who spent nearly three weeks underground in 2018, forced to spend night on roof of homeThe coach of the young Thai footballers who captured the world’s attention when they spent nearly three weeks trapped in a cave has found himself in another watery predicament – stuck on his roof by flash floods.Ekkapol Chantawong said he was drawing on his 2018 experience with the Wild Boars team to get through the situation at his home in the northern Thai district of Mae Sai.
  
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• Partial bridge collapse in eastern Germany causes major traffic disruption

  11-09-2024 16:33 via foxnews.com
  
  Officials are investigating why a concrete bridge partially collapsed in eastern Germany early Wednesday, disrupting a major traffic artery in Dresden and interrupting the heating system for a city nicknamed "Florence on the Elbe" for its Baroque architecture.No one was injured when a section of the Carola Bridge fell into the Elbe River, the Dresden fire department said on its website. Police are treating the collapse as an accident, because there are no signs of foul play, according to German
  
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• What to watch in September: ‘Beetlejuice,’ ‘The Wild Robot,’ ‘Wolfs’

  11-09-2024 15:55 via today.com
  Rotten Tomatoes’ Jacqueline Coley joins TODAY to share TV shows and movies to watch this September including the highly anticipated “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,” George Clooney and Brad Pitt’s on-screen reunion in “Wolfs” and more.
  
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• ‘Miracle’ penguin found two weeks after escaping captivity in Japan

  11-09-2024 15:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Pen-chan defies expectations to be reunited with keeper safe and sound after swimming 30 miles in open seaA fugitive penguin in Japan has been found safe and sound two weeks after escaping into the sea and paddling for miles in what her keeper called a miracle.Pen-chan, a female Cape penguin born and raised in captivity, who had never swum in the open sea before or fended for herself, absconded from an event in the central Aichi region on 25 August. Continue reading...
  
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• Volunteer during archaeological excavation finds 'remarkable' piece of jewelry in Scotland

  11-09-2024 15:19 via foxnews.com
  
  During a dig at Burghead fort in Scotland, a volunteer spent weeks digging with no finds. That all changed after 30 days of searching when John Ralph discovered a Pictish ring at the site. "The dig was my fifth dig of the season. I had dug for more than 30 days and had found very little of interest," Ralph told Fox News Digital in an email. When he finally found something, Ralph described his emotions as a mix of "relief, disbelief and happiness." "Once I found out what I had found, I
  
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• Call for army to protect Italian hospital staff after spate of attacks

  11-09-2024 15:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Patients and relatives turn on doctors and nurses, with 16,000 reports of physical and verbal assaults in 2023 aloneDoctors’ and nurses’ unions in Italy have called for authorities to consider bringing the army into hospitals in response to an increase in attacks by patients and their relatives that provoked outrage across the country.In one of the latest, captured on video and widely shared on social media, doctors and nurses were forced to barricade themselves in a room at the Poli
  
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• Ukraine presses U.S. to allow long-range strikes against Russia after months of resistance

  11-09-2024 14:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump refused to say he wanted Ukraine to win the war against Russia during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
  
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• ‘So many similarities’: Rachel Corrie’s parents call for inquiry into death of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi

  11-09-2024 14:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Cindy and Craig Corrie say they fear Eygi’s death at West Bank protest will go unpunished like their daughter’sBiden calls IDF’s killing of American in West Bank ‘totally unacceptable’When Cindy and Craig Corrie heard about the death of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, the American-Turkish woman killed at a protest in the occupied West Bank last week, it reopened a 21-year-old wound. “You feel the ripping apart again of your own family when you know that’s happen
  
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• Afghan women meet in Albania in ‘act of defiance’ against Taliban crackdown

  11-09-2024 14:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Organisers of international summit hope to create pressure to reverse laws including a ban on women speaking in publicMore than 130 Afghan women have gathered in Albania at an All Afghan Women summit, in an attempt to develop a united voice representing the women and girls of Afghanistan in the fight against the ongoing assault on human rights by the Taliban.Some women who attempted to reach the summit from inside Afghanistan were prevented from travelling, pulled off flights in Pakistan or stop
  
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• Labor bill proposes up to seven years’ jail for doxing but drops promised new hate speech laws

  11-09-2024 14:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Legislation will be introduced on Thursday along with a children’s online privacy code and misinformation lawsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe new proposed crime of doxing would be punishable by up to seven years for targeting someone for their race, religion, or sexuality but Labor has backed down on its proposal to outlaw hate speech and vilification against minority groups.Malicious release of personal data would be criminalised under a bill to be introduce
  
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• Europe watches Harris-Trump debate for clues on direction US may take

  11-09-2024 13:49 via theguardian.com
  Diplomats most struck by Republican’s refusal to say whether he wanted Ukraine to defeat Vladimir PutinHarris v Trump: US presidential debate – latest updatesThe TV debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was as keenly watched by European diplomats and politicians as by US voters, eager to see who may be next in the White House and – crucially – the direction that a vital ally may next take.One diplomat said they empathised when Harris adopted a series of poses that
  
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